Records of Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Company, 1883-1933 (bulk 1883-1908).

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Records of Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Company, 1883-1933 (bulk 1883-1908).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122560029

This collection consists of business records, correspondence, and maps; the majority of which deal with the purchase of Boschke's Island (or Smith's Island) by the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Company from Albert and Martha Ellen Boschke. There were subsequent legal complications regardnig this purchase with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and the Banning Company, primarily Joseph Brent Banning and William Banning (1858-1946).

113 pieces.1 box.15 oversize folders.

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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SNAC Resource ID: 6764222

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Kerckhoff, William George, 1856-1929

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Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Company.

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The Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Company was originally the Los Angeles branch of the J.G. Jackson Lumber Company. James Cuzner was managing it when in 1879 William George Kerckhoff (1856-1929) approached him about purchasing a partner stake in the company. Cuzner and Kerckhoff each purchased a quarter stake and the company then became Jackson, Kerckhoff & Cuzner. In 1883 the company incorporated and became the Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Company. As business grew they acquired ...

Southern Pacific railroad company

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The Southern Pacific Railroad was founded in 1865 and was purchased in 1869 by Collis Huntington, Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, better known as the Big Four. It was the first railroad to connect Los Angeles to the rest of California and its lines extended as far as New Orleans. In 1901, the Union Pacific Railroad bought 38% of Southern Pacific stock and took control of the company, but the Union Pacific was ultimately forced to divest these shares in 1912 by the U.S. Supreme...

Boschke, Albert.

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Banning, William, 1858-1946.

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Banning, Joseph Brent, 1861-1920

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Banning Company.

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